The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25
MIR. CROWLEY AND HIS BABY WIFE
The Alliance of the Chimpanzee In the New
York Central Park.

The Alliance of the Ch,mpanzee In the New
York Central Park.
Olive Thorne Miller, in Decent Der Cosmop oiitan-
This animal has proved attractive to the
public that the park commissioners betho ught
them to provide him with a mate. An order for
a young female chimpanzee was therefore sent
out, and after two years of waiting a promising
young parsonage named Kitty was brought to
New York. and most unique courtship began.
The baby. for she is but infant still. being
two years old and about half his size, IS very
pretty for an ape-and charmingly amable
and frolicsome little creature. Not possessed
by the mania of tearing everything the bits. she
can be trusted with hammock, in which she
plays all sorts of amusing pranks, and red
shawl, the delight of her heart She was inter
duced to Mr.. Crowley by placing her in the
next cage to his, separated by close partition,
in one part of which are narrow openings, hard
II more than cracks, through which he can see
and hear, but not touch.
His reception of her was not very gallant.
He went mad with rage; he ached to tear her to
pieces; he shouted at her; he pounded the
partition; shook the bars; he fairly jumped up
and down in passion. If anything given to
her, he raised a riot; and when his audience
paid attention to her, he behaved like tiger
out of the jungle In fact. he showed himself
to be a ferocious wild beast. There is no doubt
that he would have killed her instantly had she
been in his power.
But Kitty was protected by her bars. and
gradually he is getting more amiable, though
with occasional relapses into his original senti-
ments that augur i'll for Miss Kittys future
He grew willy after little, and made of
other tactics to get her within reach. He came
to the bars. coaxed, and chartered and was very
sociable till she came near, when he blinded her
with handful of sawdust Poor Kitty retired
in disgust, while Crowley scamperec around his
cage in frenzy of JOY, chuckllng. turning
somersaults, and indulging in the maddest Of
froics.
Again he thrusts his long arms outside his
cage in front, and around into her cage his hand
feeling around to seize whatever it might touch.
Sometimes Kitty avoids it, sometimes she takes
hold of it, occasionally she gives it playful bite
lIoh he iaplyC hazel rI1Sh he's
floor to gather handful of sawdust, again puts
his arm through the bars and filings 1t at her.
Hate her as he may, he can not help being
interested if any sound comes from her side OF
the wall he hurries to the opening and CLUES
his ear or his eye to the crack, as an caves
dropper to keyhole
One day each of them had stick to play with.
Kitty amused herself biting hers to a point,
pressing it into hole too small to admit it until
it was reduced in size. and breaking it off, then
biting 1t again, and repeating the operation,
apparently liking the noise 1t made. Crowley
used his stick to annoy her; he pushed it be-
tween the bars and tried to reach her with it.
She would take hold of it, when he jerked it
away and was so pleased that he chuckled and
grinned most unpleasantly. After tornenting
her long time, he grew careless. and she
snatched it out of his hand. Then his fury was
terrible to see; he ragged round like demon,
pelted her with showers of sawdust. and be-
came so obstreperous that of the keepers
took long iron rod with scraper the end,
and tried to discipline him. But so far from
succeeding. Mr.. Crowley turned the tables
him by snatching it out of his hand, and then
he bad a weapon with which he might easily
kill half dozen of his packed spectators. He
had the strength to do it, too; he handled that
six. foot rod as if it were bamboo cane There
was sort of panic outside; the crowd backed;
the keeper snatched longer iron of the same
ing himself that he had not chance to think of
the power in his hands till the rod could be
dragged out